• Login
    View Item 
    •   Home
    • Colleges, Departments, and Organizations
    • Arizona Geological Survey (AZGS)
    • AZGS Document Repository
    • View Item
    •   Home
    • Colleges, Departments, and Organizations
    • Arizona Geological Survey (AZGS)
    • AZGS Document Repository
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Browse

    All of UA Campus RepositoryCommunitiesTitleAuthorsIssue DateSubmit DateSubjectsPublisherJournalThis CollectionTitleAuthorsIssue DateSubmit DateSubjectsPublisherJournal

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    About

    AboutUA Faculty PublicationsUA DissertationsUA Master's ThesesUA Honors ThesesUA PressUA YearbooksUA CatalogsUA Libraries

    Statistics

    Most Popular ItemsStatistics by CountryMost Popular Authors

    Potential targets for shale-oil and shale-gas exploration in Arizona

    • CSV
    • RefMan
    • EndNote
    • BibTex
    • RefWorks
    Thumbnail
    Name:
    ofr-13-09_shale-0il-gasv1.pdf
    Size:
    1.883Mb
    Format:
    PDF
    Download
    Author
    Rauzi, S.L.
    Spencer, J.E.
    Issue Date
    2013-07-10
    Keywords
    Arizona Geological Survey Open File Reports
    Neoproterozoic
    Cambrian
    Devonian
    Pennslyvanian
    Paleozoic
    Mesozoic
    Cretaceous-Jurassic
    Mohave County
    La Paz County
    Yuma County
    Navajo Reservation
    Coconino County
    Gila County
    Greenlee County
    Pima County
    Cochise County
    Navajo County
    Apache County
    gas production
    horizontal drilling
    Exploration
    Oil and Gas
    shale gas
    shale oil
    Show allShow less
    
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Citation
    Rauzi, S.L. and Spencer, J.E., 2013, Potential targets for shale-oil and shale-gas exploration in Arizona. Arizona Geological Survey Open File Report, OFR-13-09 v. 1, 9 p.
    Description
    The recent development of horizontal drilling techniques and application of hydraulic fracturing to horizontal wells has dramatically increased oil and gas production in the U.S., notably in areas with extensive organic-rich shale and calcareous shale deposits. Shale formations that contain hydrocarbons without sufficient porosity and permeability to yield economic amounts of oil and gas with conventional drilling techniques are being reconsidered in light of these technological advances. In this report we identify 10 rock formations in Arizona that consist dominantly of shale or phyllite (very low grade metamorphic shale) that represent potential areas of interest for shale-oil and shale-gas exploration (Table 1, Fig. 1). Many of these units are weakly metamorphosed, and are perhaps too thermally mature to contain recoverable oil or gas in known exposures. However, lateral equivalents of these units may be less metamorphosed and so contain recoverable hydrocarbons. These equivalents could be present but concealed, especially in structurally complex areas in southeastern Arizona.
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10150/629317
    Additional Links
    http://repository.azgs.az.gov/uri_gin/azgs/dlio/1523
    Language
    en
    Series/Report no.
    OFR-13-09
    Rights
    Arizona Geological Survey. All rights reserved.
    Collection Information
    Documents in the AZGS Document Repository collection are made available by the Arizona Geological Survey (AZGS) and the University Libraries at the University of Arizona. For more information about items in this collection, please contact azgs-info@email.arizona.edu.
    North Bounding Coordinate
    37.0402
    South Bounding Coordinate
    31.3751
    West Bounding Coordinate
    -114.719
    East Bounding Coordinate
    -109.05
    Collections
    AZGS Document Repository

    entitlement

     

    Related items

    Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.

    • Thumbnail

      Mineralogy of Useful Minerals in Arizona

      Willis, C.F. (1916-11-21)
    • Thumbnail

      State Safety News: March, 1917

      Willis, C.F.; McKeehan, W. (University of Arizona Bureau of Mines, 1917-02-27)
    • Thumbnail

      A Summary of Salinities in Arizona’s Deep Groundwater

      Gootee, B.F.; Mahan, M.K.; Love, D.S. (Arizona Geological Survey (Tucson, AZ), 2012-09-20)
    The University of Arizona Libraries | 1510 E. University Blvd. | Tucson, AZ 85721-0055
    Tel 520-621-6442 | repository@u.library.arizona.edu
    DSpace software copyright © 2002-2017  DuraSpace
    Quick Guide | Contact Us | Send Feedback
    Open Repository is a service operated by 
    Atmire NV
     

    Export search results

    The export option will allow you to export the current search results of the entered query to a file. Different formats are available for download. To export the items, click on the button corresponding with the preferred download format.

    By default, clicking on the export buttons will result in a download of the allowed maximum amount of items.

    To select a subset of the search results, click "Selective Export" button and make a selection of the items you want to export. The amount of items that can be exported at once is similarly restricted as the full export.

    After making a selection, click one of the export format buttons. The amount of items that will be exported is indicated in the bubble next to export format.